tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 21:03:21 2006
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Re: yopwaH
At 8:33 PM -0800 1/22/06, Shane MiQogh wrote:
>Russ Perry Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> jangpu' lay'SIv, ja':
>>> I've never, in 50 years, heard anyone talk about one of the two
>>> leggings of a pair of trousers as a 'pant'.
>> Yet "pantleg" isn't that unusual. Perhaps a singular, unbound,
>> form of "pant" is obsolete, but the bound form isn't dead yet.
> are you saying it was mearly a contraction, and it's actually pant
> legs that we wear everyday?
No. I'm saying that while the word "pant" (singular of "pants") is
never heard today, it still exists as a bound morpheme in the word
"pantleg".
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